January 07, 1899

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Features

A Retrospect of the Year 1898

Remarkable Uses of Peat

By Oliver C. Farrington

Automobiles for Fifth Avenue

A Convertible Vehicle

An Improvement in Clay-Cutting Tables

An Automatic Acetylene-Apparatus

The Giant Wheel of Paris

The New East River Bridge

The Armed Forces of the World

Departments

Letters

Correspondence - January 7, 1899

Departments

Recently Patented Inventions - January 7, 1899

Index of Inventions - January 7, 1899

Business and Personal - January 7, 1899

Notes and Queries - January 7, 1899

Patents - January 7, 1899

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